Chapter 3 The persecution of actresses

"That director is a bastard!" said a middle-aged woman angrily in front of the TV camera, "He knows that he is the idol of young people, he knows that he has the ability to influence young people, but what did he do! He made a movie about a minor pregnancy and made her look cool! This is irresponsible behavior!"

The accusations against Sid and "Juno" are only one aspect, in fact, there are so-called pregnancy incidents "historically" because of the influence of "Juno", but because the heroine at the time, Alan Pegg, was only an almost unknown actor before.

As a result, the impact of the incident subsided relatively quickly.

However, this time Lindsay is also the heroine of the popular youth drama "Hannah Montana", with "Hannah Montana" Lindsay's popularity among teenagers, especially underage children, is much higher than that of Ellen Pegg.

So, in this case, there were more girls getting pregnant, and the impact was wider. After all, whether it is director Sid or the heroine Lindsay, they are both very influential idols among North American teenagers.

Soon, while the mass media was still discussing media entertainment and underage protection, Republican conservative critics couldn't wait to connect and compare the experiences of these Massachusetts teenage teens with the plot of the movie "Juno."

Although the New Republic soon became a literary editor, Leon Westtier said: "Republicans are always looking for a new problem to talk about, and now they have found one: 'Juno'!"

Even Roger Friedman, who has always been on the right, wondered: "Juno violated conservative values at one point, and vindicated and defended it from its perspective." The question now is, will the public treat these girls with early pregnancies the same way they did with Juno in the movie, or will they refuse to give them understanding and help by blaming them for being pregnant?"

Although the discussion in the serious media continues, the paparazzi, who have always seen the wind and rudder in Hollywood, can't wait to rush to the center of the incident.

But because Sid eats and lives at Universal Studios in order to sprint the final progress of "Harry Potter", they can't be harassed. So they turn to the other protagonist, Lindsay!

When they surrounded Lindsay's school gate, she had just finished school and was surrounded by dozens of paparazzi at once, and even the "well-informed" little Nizi was stunned.

And a bunch of paparazzi asked questions like a barrage, from the "Juno incident" to the impact of the incident, and some people even asked bluntly: "The youngest pregnant person in Massachusetts is only 14 years old, the same age as Lindsay, and they are all pregnant because of your influence, how do you feel?"

This suddenly made Lindsay Xiaonizi confused, although she was eccentric, but after all, she was only 14 years old.

That's why I cried and called Sid.

Sid has actually been concerned about this matter, but although the incident is very hot, it has not deviated from the rails before. While there was a lot of discussion linking the events in Massachusetts to Juno, most of the media remained neutral and objective, focusing more on the film itself.

And even if there is an attack, it is the parents involved, or the passers-by who stand and talk without backache, who attack Sid, the director. As for the possible impact of these events on the "Juno" rush, Sid has been handed over to Ali Emmanuel and others to deal with.

And those few remarks and attacks against Sid himself, Sid, who is a man in two lives, is no longer a glass heart. Although Sid is just a behind-the-scenes director and boss, he is not yet 20 years old, and in the eyes of many people, he is synonymous with the miracle American dream.

In particular, Sid's shock to teenagers of the same age is even better than that of Mark Zuckerberg more than a decade later.

Many people say that Sid has made the entire Generation Y (post-80s and 90s in North America) look like a failure. Therefore, these rhetorical attacks are not painful at all in Sid's eyes.

But!

"Actress persecution" - this is one of the unique ecology of the North American entertainment industry.

In other words, when some major entertainment social events occur, female stars involved in them always bear the brunt of being condemned by the media and even the public.

The most typical example is the "presidential assassination" during the Reagan era!

A rich second generation named John Hinckley, who has nothing to do all day long, decided to make a big news to get the attention of the goddess in his heart just because he was obsessed with Jodie Foster, who played several girls in "Taxi Driver".

And the big news he thought of was the assassination of the president!

So on March 30, 1981, as Reagan was leaving after his speech at the Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C., a blonde young man suddenly pulled out a revolver from the crowd and fired six explosive rounds at President Ronald Reagan.

One of the bullets, after bouncing off the ground, entered Reagan's left lung, just 3 centimeters from his heart.

At the subsequent trial, John Hinckley's lavish team of lawyers tried their best to describe his behavior as a mental anomaly to please Jodie Foster.

This almost immediately led to the personal attack of the American media and the public against the originally irrelevant Jodie Foster, and the posture of the national attack was almost not under the media attack triggered by the so-called "** case" of Tianwang MJ more than ten years later.

Jodie Foster, who was still studying at Yale University at the time, completely lost interest in men and became lace edges. And her originally smooth sailing star journey is almost gone. Only then did the media and the public let go of Jodie Foster, who was shot in the knee.

So the paparazzi's way of besieging Lindsay Xiao Nizi this time directly angered Sid.

Just a few days later, the Fire Lion sent out invitations to major North American media for a press conference, and the topic of the press conference was the response to the "Juno incident".

At this moment, the media in North America is boiling, and the media that have received the invitation are naturally cheering, while the media that have not received the invitation can only be anxious while trying their best to get the invitation through various channels.

Because, generally speaking, the film company will never respond to this kind of incident caused by the influence of the film itself.

After all, these are events that have nothing to do with each other, and there is no reason to criticize the film distributor legally, or morally.

So, everyone was very curious about what Sid would say.